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Cloud Platform Architect (Senior) California - Hybrid (3 days/week onsite) · Full-time
About the role: We're looking for a hands-on Cloud Platform Architect to lead technical strategy and drive transformation across our global SRE and DevOps operations. This is a senior individual-contributor role where you'll set the architectural vision, guide implementation, and influence technology decisions for a cloud platform serving millions of users worldwide. As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you'll help move the organisation from manual operations to automated, intelligent workflows - balancing strategic architecture with hands-on coding (roughly 40-50% of the role). You'll work across multi-tenant GCP infrastructure, Kubernetes optimisation, disaster recovery, automation frameworks, and compliance solutions.
What you'll do:
  • Define and enforce architectural standards across the cloud product portfolio
  • Lead technology evaluations and vendor selections with clear technical recommendations
  • Create Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) for major initiatives
  • Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams on implementation patterns
  • Drive cross-product technical alignment and establish common standards
  • Own the technical roadmap for cloud infrastructure and automation
  • Architect solutions for multi-region HA, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code
  • Design automation frameworks that eliminate manual processes and reduce operational toil
  • Build observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and GCP tooling
  • Write production-grade code in Python, Bash, and Go for automation and tooling
  • Develop Terraform modules and IaC patterns for enterprise-scale deployments
  • What you'll bring 10+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering within large-scale production environments
  • Expert-level experience with GCP (or AWS), multi-region architectures, GKE optimisation, networking, and security
  • Deep Kubernetes expertise in production
  • Advanced Terraform development and IaC best practices
  • Strong coding skills in Python, Bash, and/or GoLinux systems expertise across multiple distributions
  • Proven ability to create technical documentation and ADRsNice to have
  • Multi-cloud experience (AWS/Azure)
  • Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP)
  • Demonstrated cost-optimisation winsSRE/DevOps transformation leadership
  • Observability platform expertise
  • Disaster recovery design and implementation
  • GitOps and CI/CD pipeline expertise (Jenkins, GitLab, ArgoCD)
  • What's on offer
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
Life and accidental death insurance 401(k) plan and company incentive plan11 paid holidays, two weeks' paid vacation (prorated by start date), plus additional leave optionsGCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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Manager

Location

San Jose, CA

Occupation

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

Industry

Computer Systems Design Services

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